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“He thought he was acting suspiciously and monitored him on CCTV and saw him select items from the store, detagged them and put them in his bag before leaving without paying,” she said.

“He was challenged by security outside and detained and the items included shoes, T shirts, trousers, underwear and socks worth a total of £49.50.”

The district judge told the defendant he had committed the theft while he was subject to a community order and he did not seem to be interested in doing anything the court said, had not paid his fines and had stolen again.

However he said he was going to give him one final chance to be punished in the community and sentenced him to a new community order with a 16 week curfew between the hours of 7pm and 7am daily.

He was also ordered to pay a total of £145 costs and an £85 victim surcharge.